A Plain Life: Walking My Belief - Hardcover

Savage, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345438035 ISBN 13: 9780345438034

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 2000

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Book by Savage Scott

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The editor of Plain magazine offers his inspirational and incisive reflections on how he chose to reject the complexities of the modern technological world to embrace a simpler life, describing his weeklong walk across the state of Ohio in order to turn in his driver's license at the state capital.

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ast-paced, high-tech world, the most radical act of all might be this: to slow down . . . to try, in each moment, to be fully, truly present. Scott Savage, editor of the hand-produced Plain magazine, spent ten years trying to do just that--by embracing his Quaker faith and, with his family, rejecting the trappings of modern life, technology, and media. Then Scott decided to seal his commitment to the plain life by terminating his driver's license.

In this account of his week long walk across the state of Ohio to officially hand in his license at the state capitol, each moment of the road leads to contemplations of what the transition to the plain life has meant for Scott, his wife Mary Ann, and their children. We come to understand that the Savage family's chosen life is not easy by any means, but the rewards of place, presence, authenticity, and community which have accompanied their rejection of what most of us take for granted are immense: the arbor of shade trees surrounding their hou

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0345438035
• ISBN 13: 9780345438034
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 207